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dc.contributor.advisorSquires, Claire-
dc.contributor.advisorHalsey, Katherine-
dc.contributor.authorWiles, Ellen-
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-25T07:49:52Z-
dc.date.issued2019-05-31-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/30332-
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores live literature and its cultural value through experiential literary ethnography. Focusing on fiction in performance, it features ethnographies of two contrasting live literature events: the Hay Festival and the Polari Salon. Although live literature has grown fast to become a central part of contemporary literary culture, it has been neglected in scholarship until recently, particularly in relation to fiction, and in terms of performance, reception and value, and through phenomenological research. My experiential literary ethnographies are composed using creative writing techniques in order to evoke and recreate key elements of participant experience at live literature events. Participants include both author-performers and reader-audiences. From the ethnographies, I distil key insights into each event, and into live literature and its cultural value. I argue that experiential literary ethnography is an approach that has the capacity to illuminate the value of other arts-based events and cultural practices, and the potential to be fruitfully applied in arts practice, evaluation and funding contexts, as well as in scholarship. An interdisciplinary project, this research draws upon scholarship rooted in anthropology, literary studies, publishing studies, performance studies and neuroscience among other fields.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Stirlingen_GB
dc.rights© Ellen Wiles, 2019. All rights reserved.en_GB
dc.subjectlive literatureen_GB
dc.subjectliterary festivalsen_GB
dc.subjectbook eventsen_GB
dc.subjectpublishingen_GB
dc.subjectreadersen_GB
dc.subjectreadershipen_GB
dc.subjectaudiencesen_GB
dc.subjectreader-audiencesen_GB
dc.subjectliterary cultureen_GB
dc.subjectcurationen_GB
dc.subjectdigitalisationen_GB
dc.subjectattentionen_GB
dc.subjectattention economyen_GB
dc.subjectexperientialen_GB
dc.subjectexperienceen_GB
dc.subjectembodimenten_GB
dc.subjectphenomenologyen_GB
dc.subjectlivenessen_GB
dc.subjectperformanceen_GB
dc.subjectoralityen_GB
dc.subjecttexten_GB
dc.subjectauthorshipen_GB
dc.subjectreadingen_GB
dc.subjectmemoryen_GB
dc.subjectsensoryen_GB
dc.subjectaestheticsen_GB
dc.subjectethnographyen_GB
dc.subjectauto ethnographyen_GB
dc.subjectanthropologyen_GB
dc.subjectliterary anthropologyen_GB
dc.subjectcreative writingen_GB
dc.subjectevocative writingen_GB
dc.subjectimpacten_GB
dc.subjectevaluationen_GB
dc.subjectcultural valueen_GB
dc.subjectliterary ethnographyen_GB
dc.subject.lcshLiteratureen_GB
dc.subject.lcshLiterature and societyen_GB
dc.subject.lcshBooks Historyen_GB
dc.subject.lcshHay Festivalen_GB
dc.titleLive Literature and Cultural Value: Explorations in Experiential Literary Ethnographyen_GB
dc.typeThesis or Dissertationen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctor of Philosophyen_GB
dc.rights.embargodate2020-10-31-
dc.rights.embargoreasonThe book is contracted for publication in book form by Palgrave in 2020 and will not change significantly for this publication. The electronic thesis should not be published in advance of the book.en_GB
dc.contributor.funderAHRCen_GB
dc.author.emailellenwiles@gmail.comen_GB
dc.rights.embargoterms2020-11-01en_GB
dc.rights.embargoliftdate2020-11-01-
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